Hat or bonnet and method of making the same



(No Model.)

0. DANIELS.

HAT 0B. BONNET AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME. No. 366,572. Patented July 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CORALINN DANIELS, OF FRANKLIN, MASSACHUSETTS.

HAT OR BONNET AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,572, dated July 12, 1 7. Application filed April 17, 1886. Serial No. 199,214. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CORALINN DANIELS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Franklin, in the county of Norfolk, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ladies Hats or Bonnets, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention is an improvement upon a patent granted on the 6th day of April, 1886, No. 339,521, for a tissue-paper hat.

My improvement is the adaptation of textile and other materials, as silks, velvets, plushes, or satins, to ladies hats, when the ma terial has first been made into cups, caps, or cells, and then set upon the bonnet or hat frame, with either the open or the closed end up, as may seem suitable to the material. The tissue-paper cups were formed in a tube by pressure alone; but the cloth cups must be formed both by pressure and heat combined. Cloth will not retain a definite form by simple pressure through a tube, like paper. Cups will retain a definite form when made of cloth material heated and pressed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a section of a bonnet-frame illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 represents cups formed of velvet, plush, or other thick material, and intended to be applied with the closed ends up. Fig. 3 represents cups formed of silk, satin, lawn, or other thin material, intended to be applied to the frame with the edges up. Fig. 4 represents a square of any suitablecloth material. Fig. 5 represents a single cup of thin cloth. Fig. 6 represents a circle of any suitable cloth material. Fig. 7 represents a single cup of thick cloth. Fig. 8 represents the tube, rod, and a cup in the process of making.

My invention consists in a method of making ladies hats out of cups, where flat blanks are cut out of suitable cloth fabrics, subjected to heat and pressure, and attached vertically to the hat-frame in more or less numbers, as the case may require. Some fabrics contain sufficient sizing to aid in the process of setting and hardening the definite form of the cup. Others do not contain sufficient sizing to form the cup satisfactorily. To these fabrics may be applied a weak sizing before the blanks cut from it are pressed through the tube.

In making the cloth cups, which may be formed of silk, satin, velvet, plush, and other rich and handsome materials, blanks are first cut by hand or by machinery into small circles 01' squares, with plain or scalloped edges. These blanks are set upon a tube somewhatin the shape of a spool, having a rim around its upper surface to prevent the small blanks from slipping off the tube, and also to form an exact gage for the size of the blanks, so that a blank shall not emerge from the tube with an irregular edge, providing a straight edge is required. This rim, which compels the blank to enter the tube exactly in its center, results in a on havin a )erfectl true ed e thus p a 1 a a rendering trimming unnecessary. If the material requires it, a weak sizing is applied before pressing through the tube. A red is then applied to the blank and "presses it through the tube slowly enough to dry the sizing and give it a permanent form of a cup. The rod is heated, or the tube is heated, or both are heated, but in no case so hot as to scorch the material. The tube through which the blanks are pressed maybe either plain or corrugated, and the rod should correspond therewith.

Vhen the cups are applied to the bonnet or hat frame, they may be made of more or less diameter or height, set with the open or closed end in view, set closely or far apart, or applied in any desired design or manner. Beads, small ornaments, or spanglcs may be combined with these cups or set into them, as shown in Fig. 3, to produce a tasteful effect, and the edge of the hat or bonnet may be ornamented with jet, pearl, or other beads to harmonize with those introduced among the cups.

This invention is several steps in advance of the tissue-paper hat or bonnet, inasmuch as the latter cannot be worn at all seasons of the year, is not durable, will fade, and will not retain its shape when exposed to moisture.

Myinvention, made of rich and durablematerials, is adapted to all climates and all sea sons of the year, will retain its shape and color, and is adapted to the requirements of ladies who might object to the wearing of a paper hat, but who would wear a textile material defollowing steps namel y: first, cutting out the blank for the cap from a selected piece of textile fabric; second, moistening the blank with sizing or other adhesive material; third, sulojecting the blank thus prepared to the action of heatand pressure within a die until it is set and hardened into a cap or tube closed at one end, and, fourth, attaching the said caps vertically upon the hat or bonnet foundation until the surface thereof is covered, substantially as described. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand in thepresence of two witnesses.

OORALINN DANIELS.

Witnesses:

WV. J; MORGAN, JOHN BUOKLER. 

